An indispensable companion in which to note, record and organise a passion for beer. With a glossy black debossing and a double expandable inner pocket the Beer journal has 240 pages with five themed sections and five tabbed sections to personalise. It includes a glossary, advice on pouring tips, glass types and tasting notes and homebrewing log and with space for your recipes, cellar and favourite addresses. It also has blank pages, three bookmark ribbons and 202 adhesive labels for personalisi

I bought this book after seeing it for sale on Amazon. I am an avid beer drinker and generally use the 33 Bottles of Beer Tasting Notebook and felt that I might as well try the Moleskine.

The book itself is very nice. It has over 200 pages and is fairly compact. The tasting section is fairly robust, but lacks a number taste identifiers on the color where which the 33books have. The moleskin wheel is only 12 aspects where the 33books are 16. They are missing major tasting areas such as astringency, herbal and citrus. However, what they lack in their tasting wheel, they make up for in other areas. There is glass selection, color rating and plenty of space for other notes.

My biggest complaint however is space. The book is 200+ pages and it only has 40 pages for detailed tastings. There are ~20 pages for “My Cellar” which are abbreviated tastings, 30 pages for cooking recipes involving beer, 20 pages for addresses, 30 pages for home brewing and over 100 pages for other notes. This book would be an A if it had 100+ pages for tastings and maybe a few extra pages for everything else. I just don’t need 80% of the book to be space I will never use. I bought the book to record tastings and only ~15% of the book is for doing this.

Do yourself a favor and buy the 33books tasting books if that is what you’re after. If you want a more robust book for everything beer related, buy the Moleskine.

Not enough pages for tastings, once you taste 40 beers you’ll need another book or go to their site and download more pages.The quality of the book is great, just like all their other products.The 33books are cheaper and it shows, 32 reviews per book but you can get 3 books for ten dollars.I will use this journal, but I will not be buying another one.